Feds Freeze $30M In Online Poker Winnings
An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department long has maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.
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Useful poker information:
- MUCK - [1] A collection of face-down cards near the dealer composed of discards, i.e., folded hands, burns and discards for drawing purposes. [2] To throw one's cards into the muck, thus folding.
- MILES OF BAD ROAD - Three of a kind. Prefixed with a number, 3*<N>, to indicate 3 <N>s. Thus "24 miles of bad road" is 3 eights, etc. (This obviously doesn't work for face cards.)
- RING GAME - A standard game where players can come and go as they choose. The opposite of TOURNAMENT.
- RERAISE - To raise after an opponent has raised.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- PASS - Opposite of bet. To check, if checked to. To fold, if bet to.
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